Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 3
11. Who opined, "A man may be most sagacious and yet fail to win love, as Lamb won and still retains it"?
12. In which essay, the author says, "contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race"?
13. In which essay, the author says: Even if a man sacrifices his own happiness in favour of something that is noble, he remains envious of those who "enjoy a lesser degree of nobility."
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions (38-42) that follow. The chief condition of happiness, then barring certain physical prerequisites, is the life of reason the specific glory and power of man. Virtue, or rather excellence will depend on clear judgement, self-control, symmetry of desire, artistry of means; it is not the possession of the simple man, nor the gift of innocent intent, but the achievement of experience in the fully developed man, Yet there is a road to it, a guide to excellence, which may save many detours and delays: it is the middle way, the golden mean. The qualities of character can be arranged in triads in each of which can the first and the last qualities will be extreme and vices, and the middle quality, a virtue or an excellence. So between cowardice and rashness is courage, between sloth and greed is ambition; between humility and pride is modesty between secrecy and loquacity is honesty, between quarrelsomeness and flattery is friendship; between Hamlet's indecisiveness and on Quixote's impulsiveness is self-control. The right in ethics or conduct is not different from right in mathematics or engineering, it means correct, fit, what works best to the best results.Question:What is the main idea of the passage?